Music Alumni Spotlight: Branden Sipes ’06
Branden Sipes ’06, has launched his love of performing and song-writing into a blossoming music career.
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Warhol Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can Restoration
Beloved University Landmark to Travel to Los Angeles This Spring The Colorado State University Art Museum is pleased to announce that the Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can, which is currently installed in front of Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts, is to be restored this spring. The large scale can, signed by […]
CSU Partners with Bohemian Foundation for Contemporary Artist Music Series
This series is an exciting way to feature local musicians and CSU alumni in an intimate setting.
CSU Well Represented at 2012 Colorado Band Association Marching Band Championships
The 2012 CBA State Marching Band Championships concluded in November. Colorado State University alum and students direct and assist many of the award-winning high school bands from across the state. Please join us in congratulating the following bands and their CSU personnel! Class 1A State Champion Cedaredge High School, Mike Bowles (CSU ’11), director Class […]
Euphonium Soloist Adam Frey to Present Master Class at CSU
Guest euphonist Adam Frey will join the CSU Wind Ensemble during a special one-night-only fundraiser concert benefiting the CSU Marching Band on Saturday, Sept. 29 – the 2013 March to Dublin Fundraiser Concert. The concert features the Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and CSU Marching Band. The Wind Ensemble portion, conducted by CSU’s Christopher Nicholas of […]
A Little Mozart, Anyone?
The University Center for the Arts begins its fall 2012 music concerts on Monday, August 27 with the Virtuoso Series Concert of chamber music from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts, located at 1400 Remington St. This special concert draws from the doctoral thesis […]
Non-Auditioned Concert Orchestra Open to All CSU Students
The CSU Concert Orchestra is a non-auditioned string ensemble that meets on Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-2:30 p.m. in Room 202 of the University Center for the Arts. The first rehearsal will be held the first Wednesday of the semester and all CSU students are welcome, regardless of major. The ensemble’s conductor is Leslie Stewart (pictured) who […]
Music to cope, learn, and heal
When alumnus Casey Ehresman ʹ08 taught in the K-12 education system, she noticed that music had a way of helping children manage stress and excel academically. She chose Colorado State University to study music therapy because of the program’s emphasis on neurologically based research and study. Now a music therapist in a maximum security state […]
Funding Awarded to Arts Students for Final Project in “Entrepreneurship in the Arts”
Students from a new class at Colorado State University – Entrepreneurship in the Arts – were recently selected to receive a $1,000 award to help bring their end-of-term project to fruition. The course is one of the first offerings from the new Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Arts Advocacy, and the Public (LEAP) subject code at CSU. Proposals […]
CSU Director of Bands Invited to Guest Conduct in Central America
Summer 2012 will be a busy and fulfilling season for the Colorado State University Director of Bands. Dr. Christopher Nicholas has been appointed principal guest band conductor and adviser to the National Sistema de Orquestas, Coros y Bandas de Guatemala and will conduct concerts there in June. In July he will serve on the conducting faculty […]